Means for providing cattle with salt.



, G. L. WEIL. i MEANS FOR PROVIDING CATTLE WITH SALT.

Arrplcgnd NNNNNNNNN 13, 1911.

1,009,361. Patented Nv.21,19'11.

WITH/E8858 ED ATEQ ATENT curios. j

CHARLES n WEIL, or sr.,cnAIn, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR T0 nmrronn JnYs'r nsn'LEr" COMPANY; on ST. GLAI MICHIGAN, noonronn rron or MICHIGAN.

MEANS non. rnovrnme CATTLE wrrn SALT.-

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented NQV, 21, 191 1.

To all whom it may concem:

Beit known that I, C ARLES LL WEIL, a

citizen of the United States, residing at.

St. Clair, in the county of St; {Hair and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Providing Cattle with Salt, of which the following is a'specification; f The invention relates to improved means. for providing cattle with'the salt, they require, and its object isuto dispense entirely the objections to the employment of honor other receptacles for" holding the salt. In, the accompanying drawings forming a part of this application, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a briquet and a suitable support therefo'r, the latter being partly broken away, embodying my invention, Fig. 2 a detached 'vertical section through the briquet on; thedottedline 2-2 of Fi 3, and Fig. 3 a side elevation of'the briqilet. .In the drawings," 10 designates the briquet, 11 a portion" ofa post or other support, and 12 a wooden pegv secured to said post and preferably inclined upwardly and outwardly therefrom and upon which the briquet is hung and there retained by a ke or the like, 13; The pegf12 may be drlven into a socket in the post 11, orotherwise secured thereto 'as maybe convenient. The briquet 10 is a manufactured article and consists of salt pressed into a solid cake or tablet and preferably in the particular form illustrated in the drawings. The briquet inthe form shown has" a suitably broad periphery, convex side-faces and a shaped and prepared .briquet of' Application filed May 13, 1911. Serial No. 626,940.

centraltransverse opening or hole 14: which enables the 'briquet to be hung, upon? the peg,12"and also to rotate thereon when the salt .isbeingilickedby cattle. The briquet 10- being formed of salt under, pressure is solid and not'at'all likely to unduly dissolve or disintegrate or be; broken. during -handling or shipment. The form of the briquet shown is desirable for thepurposes of the cattle and also because 'whenin said form the briquet mayibei readilymanufactured and shippedinburlap bags, or the like, without, danger of the briquets being fractured or subjected to other injury which would result in waste.

Onepurpose of theinvention is to pro-- vide a bri uet Q10'which may be readily manufactured, handled and shippedand .at

the same time 1 adapted to'be hung upona peg 12 with the surfaces of the briquet largely exposed and kept from contact with:

surfaces which might actto the injury of the salt or the cattle licking the same.

It is a; desirable result of my invention that .itsuse avoids'lthe metal rece tacles with the consequent rust and contamination of the salt, which have heretofore been employed in supplying cattle with salt.

The peg 12 and briquet 10 may belocated inthe stable, inwhich'event the post: 11 will represent a part'of' theframe-work of the stalls, or applied to any suitable post or tree in thepasture. j I o What I claim asmy'jinvention and desire to secure b'y- Letters-Patent,is I

As a new-article of manufacture a briquet of compressed salt for the'use of cattle, said briquet having a circular periphery, convexside-fa'ces and a transverse hole adaptingthe article to be freely jhung upon a'peg, orthellike.

Signed at-StfClain'in the bounty of St.

Clair and State of Michigan, this 2nd day 

